investment banking - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jul 2008
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and practice are discussed. Download the revised paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-080.pdf PublicationsShould You Invest in the Long Tail? Author:Anita Elberse Periodical:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

curve in which the central bank can provide market participants with forward guidance on both future short rates and on future Quantitative Easing (QE) operations, which affect bond supply. Forward guidance on short rates works through... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

investment performance of passive maturity transformation strategies over this period may mask the underperformance of the specialized bank activities. See Juliane’s other research here and Erik’s other... View Details

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

online trading platform of Interactive Investor, a London-based financial advisory site. She also spent a summer on Wall Street working for Merrill Lynch in its Financial Institutions M&A group. She began her investment career as an... View Details

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Research - Private Capital Project

their pension managers. Using novel data on retirement accounts for nearly 10 million individuals, we analyze... February 2025 Case Blue Owl Financing of Ping Identity By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu In the fall of 2022, Blue Owl Capital's View Details

13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect

Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a... View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

first installment. People who got the more flexible contract invested significantly more in their businesses and earned higher returns as a result. Their businesses were bigger three years later, and they are still bigger now, 10 years... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

08 Jun 2010
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but real differences in corporate finance and investment through two different channels: a "more money" effect arising from the debt coinsurance feature of conglomerates and a "smarter money" effect arising from more... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2003
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The Problem with Hedge Funds

investment management themselves. Sensing this demand, which is what they do best, investment banks are now creating funds, which then are View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

22 Apr 2014
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control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2014
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current state of access to bank capital for small business from the best available sources. We explore both the cyclical impact of the recession on small business and access to credit and several structural issues in that impede the full... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2022
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The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

that fund young businesses are owned by Black or Hispanic founders and partners, traditionally the most likely source of capital for minority business ventures, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

01 Dec 2023
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Engaging Students More Deeply

of businesses’ pursuit of profits and their impact on their communities. “The multimedia components of these cases make the students more invested in the issues because they really get a sense of who the people are and what they are... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

now confront the bigger decision of whether or not to invest in solar panels to generate electricity for her home. Although pre-disposed to pursue environmentally friendly alternatives, the project entailed significant up-front expenses... View Details

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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Carmen Reinhart HKS ITF-270 The Financial System and the Central Bank By: Jeremy C. Stein Harvard University Econ 1759 Behavioral Finance By: Jeremy C. Stein & Andrei Shleifer Harvard University Econ 2728, PhD Corporate Finance and View Details

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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the division of research, and a professor of investment banking at HBS. The case presents a labor problem in a hypothetical shoe manufacturing plant of the same name: workers were routinely leaving the plant... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

financing models for the non-profit sector. Recent Publications Are ESG Improvements Recognized? Perspectives from the Public Sentiments By: Shaolong Wu Summer 2025 | Article | Journal of Impact and ESG Investing While Environment,... View Details

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Courses - Private Capital Project

models such as venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts. Participants will study investment criteria, management strategies, and decision-making processes essential in the field. Private Equity and Venture Capital The View Details

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